Viewers' Hot Shot Pictures 2013

This is an iridescent cloud. For them to form the cloud needs to be thin with similar size microscopic water droplets. Diffraction, a bending of light, makes them shine with random patches or bands or colors, unlike a rainbow that is more uniform. Typically these form near the sun and in this picture the sun is behind the cloud to the left.

Brazos Bend State Park

This is a lone a finger cloud. Specifically it’s called an undulatus cloud formed by an atmospheric wave. The cylinder you are seeing is caused by the rising/sinking air around the cloud. Dacus, Texas

3 year old Josard Steele

Horses in the mist.

Morning sunrise with the deer in the field.

What a shot! This is Hannah, Jackson & Harrison taking a walk through the bluebonnets in Chappell Hill. This is the 4th year in a row I’ve put on a picture sent in by Jennifer Spencer.

This was a perfect picture until a bee landed on one of the bluebonnets and scared the girls away. Cousins - Mallory, Emily and Lindsey.

Fun in the bluebonnets!

An array of bluebonnets in Navasota.

Vivid!

Extreme close up of a lady bug and bluebonnet in Splendora.

Beautiful Navasota bluebonnets

A stunning sunrise

What an excellent picture from Oz Gomez in La Grange. Looks like an African safari.

It's a great day for a ride! Low humidity, mild temperatures and light winds. Oh and a good day to be this guy.

Saturday night sunset in Kemah

Beautiful sunset along the Galveston seawall.

Delicate picture of the rain in Cypress on Feb. 21. Cypress received .25" of rain.

A foggy morning in Sugar Land at the Imperial Sugar Plant.

Lake Livingston (Riverside)

The moon and Jupiter together Monday night. The next time the pair will be this close is in 2026.

A foggy morning.

Frost Tuesday morning in April Sound, Montgomery County

From Boxie: "This is the Double Dime Ranch near Carrizo Springs, Texas, owned by Chipper Jones. He just retired as the third baseman for the Atlanta Braves and is a future "Hall of Famer." I spend a lot of days out there helping with the commercial hunters, when time allows. I love to just go sit and shoot photos. I can shoot them all with my camera and no cleaning needed!!"